2023届广东省江门市新会东方红中学高三第九次模拟考试英语试题(无答案)

新会东方红中学2023届第九次模拟考试（英语）

试时长：120分钟  总分值：120分  命题人：李艳群

Ⅰ. 阅读理解（共15题，每小题2.5分，共37.5分）

Winter sports are constantly evolving and new sports activities are regularly being created. This makes sure your next holiday in the snow is an unforgettable experience.

Snow biking

The snowbike—a cross between a bicycle and skis—guarantees pure fun and a unique skiing experience for snow fans above six. Snowbikes can be used on well-cared-for slopes（斜坡）and riders navigate the slopes with the additional help of short foot skis. And it can be ridden without the rider having previous experience.

Freeriding

There is no other winter sport that gets you closer to nature. Due to the truly unaffected character of the slopes, snow and weather conditions have to be taken into special consideration when freeriding. Therefore, it is very important to be accompanied by a professional guide who knows the skiing area inside out and who is able to correctly assess the weather conditions.

Snowshoeing

Snowshoeing is the perfect activity for those who want to explore the untouched winter landscape. The snowshoes distribute the weight of the person carrying them over a larger area so that the feet only sink lightly into the snow. Handling snowshoes is easy and does not require any previous experience: Simply fasten your snowshoes, pick up your sticks and off you go!

Snowtubing

Snowtubing is an activity for winter fans of all ages and involves sliding down a snowtubing slope in a rubber tire. Snowtubing tracks are often located close to a ski lift. This gives the tuber the opportunity to immediately go back up the mountain after the ride. The activity is the perfect and fun end to a day of skiing.

21. Which activity is the most demanding for skiers?

A. Snow biking.   B. Freeriding.   C. Snowshoeing.   D. Snowtubing.

22. What do Snow biking and Snowshoeing have in common?

A. They need no skiing experience.

B. They depend on special skis.

C. They are suitable for people of all ages.

D. They lake place on slopes with deep snow.

23. Why are Snowtubing tracks usually close to a ski lift?

A. To attract more tourists to get involved.

B. To prevent the rubber tire sliding down.

C. To create a fun ending to a day of skiing.

D. To help skiers get to the stalling point easily.

B

When American Matt Stopcra’s iPhone went missing, he thought, “Well, bad luck. These things happen.” One year later, Matt’s misfortune has turned to good fortune as he found a new friend and became an Internet celebrity in China.

You may already be familiar with this story since it spread on Weibo for weeks during the Spring Festival, but it started when Matt began seeing photos of a Chinese man in front of an orange tree on his photo stream（照片流）. He wrote about it and some Chinese readers decided to see if they could find the mysterious man. They did. It turns out that “Brother Orange, ” as he became known, owned a restaurant in Guangdong and the iPhone he was using, a gift from a nephew, was Matt’s old phone.

Matt and Brother Orange began messaging each other and a friendship blossomed with Matt invited to China to feast at Brother Orange’s restaurant on his delicious Hakkacuisine（客家菜）, Matt was also overwhelmed by the warmth of the millions of Chinese who were following the story. When he opened a Weibo account he had 22 million followers almost overnight, many of them inviting him to their hometowns and offering to be his tour guide.

Matt’s story is another example of how powerful the Internet and social networking has become in bringing people together. But there is a darker side to this story and that involves how Matt’s missing iPhone turned up in China. Over three million smart-phones were stolen in America last year. Because of identification numbers, these phones can’t be used in America, so they are sent to other countries and many of them end up in China, where they can be re-activated. This is why Matt and Brother Orange could share the same iCloud account.

You should keep this in mind when buying a second-hand phone and check the serial number to see that it has not been stolen. Finding a friend through social networking is wonderful, but using a stolen phone isn’t really the best way to make the connection.

24. What happened to Matt one year after he lost his phone?

A. He was fortunate enough to get his phone back.

B. He became a famous figure on American website.

C. He gained friendship and became popular in China.

D. He lost another phone because of his iCloud account.

25. How did Matt and Brother Orange establish their friendship?

A. Brother Orange’s photo was found on the Internet.

B. Chinese readers tried their best to find Brother Orange.

C. Brother Orange received an iPhone from his nephew.

D. Brother Orange contacted Matt and invited him to China.

26. How did Matt’s followers react to his Weibo?

A. cautiously   B. enthusiastically   C. anxiously   D. humorously

27. What does the story indicate?

A. It’s wonderful to find a friend through social net-working.

B. A stolen phone is the best way to make connections.

C. People should be careful when buying a second-hand phone.

D. Matt and Brother Orange set a good example to us.

C

Music is not just a set of sounds and rhythms. Its influence on the brain, is much deeper than any other human experience. Keep on reading to know all those amazing powers of music.

A recent study shows that preterm（早产的）babies can experience less pain and feed more when listening to music. Experts by Dr. Manoj Kumar of the University of Alberta, Canada, found that music had a useful effect on reducing pain for preterm babies experiencing painful medical tests. It can also benefit full-term babies during operations.

Many people experiencing brain damage have speech and movement-related problems. Music can help them recover. As a different and effective treatment, doctors often advise such patients to listen to good music to improve some parts of the brain. When patients hear a musical beat, it helps them to regain a balanced walk.

Though music cannot make deafness disappear, it really can stave off the loss of hearing. There was an experiment involving 163 people where 74 were musicians. Participants were asked to pass some listening tests. Musicians heard the sounds better than non-musicians, and this difference gets clearer with age. This means that a 70-year-old, musician hears better than a 50-year-old non-musician, even in a noisy environment.

Besides, music mends a broken heart. It is not about a thrown-away love, but about a heart attack. The matter is that music can help people recover from a heart attack or heart operation by reducing blood pressure, slowing down the heartbeat rate, and reducing anxiety. Listening to the quality music produces positive emotions, improves the movement of blood, and expands blood vessels, thus, promoting quick recovery of the whole cardiovascular（心血管的）system.

28. How does music affect preterm babies?

A. It helps reduce their pain.

B. It helps develop their potential in music.

C. It helps improve their hearing systems.

D. It helps repair their cardiovascular systems.

29. What does the underlined phrase “stave off” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Lead to   B. Increase   C. Prevent   D. Break into

30. Why can music mend a broken heart?

A. It can help patients recover in a slow way.

B. It helps make a person feel optimistic all the time.

C. It has a positive effect on human body systems’ work.

D. It can help people prevent diseases caused by anxiety.

31. What may be the best title for the text?

A. Who can benefit from music.

B. The best time to listen to music.

C. The way to choose quality music.

D. How music affects our mind and body.

D

Batman may not have any superpowers, but his inspiration certainly does.

More than 1, 400 bat species live around the world, except in Antarctica and a few remote islands. Over their 50 million years of evolution, bats have developed clever solutions to life’s challenges, from a built-in sonar（声呐）system for finding food to fast, flexible wings that produce the fastest level-flight speed of any animal on Earth.

“There is still a lot to learn, but it is clear that bats really do have superpowers, ” says Rodrigo Medellin, an ecologist. “Bats are showing us how to live a better life, for instance, by serving as models for healthy living and long lives.”

As a general rule in biology, smaller animals have shorter lives than larger ones. But bats are rule breakers: they’re the longest-lived mammals（哺乳动物）relative to their body size. Recently, scientists looked inside bats’ cells for the secrets to their exceptionally long lives. They focused on telomeres（端粒）, which are the protective structures found at the ends of chromosomes（染色体）. In most animals, telomeres tend to get shorter with age. But the telomeres of the longest-lived group of bats. Myotis, do not appear to shrink（收缩）with age. Understanding why bats live so long may help humans live longer one day.

In addition to living longer, bats remain healthy throughout their lives, with very low risk of developing cancer. Furthermore, bats can carry deadly viruses without getting sick. So farther research into their unique immune（免疫的）systems may actually give insight into how people can live with viruses and not get sick.

Beyond their own abilities, bats also support many other parts of their ecosystems. Three out of every four bat species eat insects. Many are pests that cause damage to important agricultural crops, such as cotton. Scientists estimate that insect-eating bats may save U. S. farmers about 1 billion per year. In addition, many bat species help improve plant health and diversity.

“Bats are unsung heroes of biodiversity, ”says Medellin. “It is about time we appreciated them.”

32. What can be learned about bats from the text?

A. They fly the fastest of all land animals.

B. They are at low risk of falling sick with a virus.

C. They live mainly on the islands of Antarctica.

D. They are the longest-lived animals given their size.

33. What did scientists recently find?

A. Animals’ telomeres rarely shrink with age.

B. Myotis’s telomeres do not shorten as they age.

C. Smaller animals usually live shorter lives than larger ones.

D. More research into bat telomeres could help people live more healthily.

34. What is the author’s intention in writing the last paragraph but one?

A. To show what bats feed on.

B. To call on people to protect bats.

C. To explain how bats benefit the farmers.

D. To highlight the importance of bats to the ecosystem.

35. What would be a suitable title for this text?

A. Bats Offer Clues to Treating Diseases

B. How Bats Deal with Life’s Challenges

C. Scientists Unlock the Secrets to Long Lives

D. Why Bats Are Superheroes of the Animal World

Ⅱ. 七选五（共5题，每小题2.5分，共12.5分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How to Choose the Right Career?

Choosing the right career can be difficult and consequently you will find many of us can hardly find a suitable job in our daily life.    36  

   37   Assess your hobbies. It is very easy to turn your hobbies or something you love doing into a future career. Many hobbies are related to real world needs and positions. Consider what you like to do and how that might fit into a career. Remain, humble as you work toward your goal.

Assessing your skills

Consider what skills you are good at. If you are particularly good at certain skills, such as fixing things or making things, this can provide you with a great future career, since skilled labor is often in demand and you will find it fairly easy to find work.   38    People who interact with others well can easily get careers as social workers or in marketing and similar business positions.

Considering your current state

Explore yourself. Figuring out what you should do with your life may sometimes require you to get to know yourself better. If you want a career that will really make you happy, you have to have an impressive awareness of what you want and what you enjoy.   39  

Thinking about your future

Examine your future financial security. One of the most important things to consider is if the career path you’re choosing will provide you with an acceptable level of financial security. In other words, will you be able to make enough money to support yourself and your family? Meanwhile, you are supposed to pay special attention to your future job stability,   40   Accordingly, you will need to consider if the career you choose is stable enough for you and your desires for the future.

Admittedly, the combination of the above four steps proved extremely effective when choosing the future career. Once you get started, you’ll find it quite beneficial and even enjoyable!

A. Evaluating your interests

B. Assessing your personality

C. Therefore, having a defined career direction will help you achieve your goal.

D. Job markets changes a lot as society needs different things at different times.

E. For some people, this means taking some time off to decide what’s vital to them.

F. If you have a good command of communicating with others, there are jobs for you as well.

G. However, with serious self-planning and self-reflection, you can set yourself on a path towards a fulfilling career.

Ⅲ. 完形填空（共15题, 每小题1分，共15分）

第一节  完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面文，从文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Every eighth grader wanted to be in a show choir（合唱团）. I waited with the other students. Soon, it was my    41    to enter the room. I almost hit every note in the song without a mistake. I felt that I had done a(n)    42    job. Weeks passed and the list of who had made it into the show choir was    43   .

I found my name on it, “Angelica H. —an alternate（候补人）”. An alternate? After I saw this, my    44    disappeared. I felt sad. In the meanwhile, I had no    45    of joining show choirs any more. I was separated from something that I thought made me    46   .

A year passed and I realized that it was not    47    of me to give up on what I loved. Once, I was at a restaurant that also held karaoke for the customers. My parents    48    me to go up and sing. I said no the first lime, no the second time, but    49    I got enough courage to go up. I chose a song by Sam Smith. When I hit the high notes in the song, people    50    there cheered for me. Their applause inspired me. I    51   singing made me happy and that I still had that    52   .

The    53    that I learned is: if you are    54    or do not get the outcome you want, and if it’s something you love, don’t give up. I know that I won’t always get the outcome I want in the fixture. However, I will    55    to work just as hard.

41. A. turn   B. chance   C. wish   D. duty

42. A. challenging  B. amazing  C. regular   D. difficult

43. A. printed   B. marked  C. posted   D. updated

44. A. curiosity  B. honesty  C. kindness  D. confidence

45. A. intention  B. gift   C. choice   D. time

46. A. fashionable  B. confused  C. different  D. surprised

47. A. polite   B. careful   C. dependent  D. smart

48. A. allowed   B. chose   C. warned  D. encouraged

49. A. eventually  B. suddenly  C. obviously  D. occasionally

50. A. talking   B. eating   C. competing  D. shopping

51. A. worried   B. regretted  C. realized  D. guessed

52. A. passion   B. energy   C. honor   D. patience

53. A. advice   B. story   C. news   D. lesson

54. A. misunderstood  B. punished  C. refused  D. distanced

55. A. pretend   B. continue  C. afford   D. forget

Ⅳ. 用单词的适当形式完成短文（共10题，每小题1.5分，共15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, the second-largest island of the British Isles. Its beautiful countryside has always had a great influence    56    its people and traditions. The country has a long history of    57    (produce) great writers and poets. Its beautiful countryside    58    (excite) and inspires all, offering something for each of the    59    (sense). The peaceful landscape of the “Emerald Isle” and its many green counties is    60    true feast for the eyes, with its rolling green hills    61    (cover) with sheep and cattle. And down by the sea, the roar of the ocean waves and cries of the seabirds make up the music of the coast. On a quiet morning in the mountains, feel the sun on your skin,   62    breathe in the sweet scent of fresh flowers while birds greet the new day with their morning song. With all this beauty, it is not surprising that Ireland has developed strong traditions that include music, dancing, and dining.   63    (have) a chance of experiencing this, stop by a village pub and relax with a glass of wine or a local beer. Better yet, enjoy a delicious traditional Irish Beef Stew.   64    you’re lucky, you might be able to enjoy some traditional music and dancing, too. And if you introduce yourself to a    65    (friend) face, you are more than likely to experience local culture and customs first-hand.

Ⅴ. 应用文作文（共1题，共15分）

第一节（满分15分）

66. 假定你是学生会主席李华，你校英语报将举行主题为“The Beauty of Nature”的绘画创作比赛。请你以学生会的名义在你校“英语天地”写一则通知，内容包括：

1. 举办比赛目的；

2. 参赛作品要求；

3. 欢迎参赛。

注意：

1. 如数80左右；2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。

NOTICE

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Ⅵ、67. 读后续写（共1题，共25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

A GIFT FOR GRANDPA

Summer vacation was coming. Jack and his brother Berlin were filled with excitement as they thought of visiting their grandparents again.

The big day came at last. After the happy family got ready, they set out for the grandparents’ eagerly. On the way, the brothers were excitedly talking about the fun they had with grandparents.

A little blue house with a tall white chimney finally appeared. Behind the property was the forest carrying their good memories with Crandpa. They arrived at the driveway, at the end of which Grandma was waiting for them joyfully.

Jack and Berlin each gave Grandma a big hug and then swept to the living room, shouting excitedly “Grandpa, we are back!”

Seeing his grandsons, Grandpa was wild with joy and tried to get up with all his strength from the chair but in vain. A helpless expression flashed on his face. Grandma explained that his health was declining rapidly and maybe couldn’t stand up on his own forever. But Grandpa declared stubbornly（倔强地）, “I can!” Certainly, he was stuck in his boyish way. Mum and grandparents were happy to meet again after a long time. They sat together and chatted about what happened recently.

The brothers were soon bored with adult conversation, went out and wandered into the forest. Tall trees stretched up to the heavens with large branches crossing each other, while young ones rose straight like soldiers. Grandpa was once a great explorer full of wisdom. He could tell where the birds came from only by their calls and songs. The trees, birds, lizards, lots of bugs…How many merry moments they spent with Grandpa in the kingdom!

But now Grandpa couldn’t get up. This made them worried. “We’d think out a way to cheer him up.” Jack said. “Grandpa is a bird lover, and we can catch him a bird.” Berlin suggested. “But he hales birds being caged!” Jack shook his head.

Then a bright idea came to Jack’s mind. “Why not make a cane（拐杖）out of a young tree!”

注意：

1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Berlin thought it was a good idea.

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Jack and Berlin handed the cane to Grandpa.